The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – November 20, 2017

A Nebraska state commission clears the last regulatory hurdle to the Keystone XL pipeline on a vote of 3-2; opponents vow to fight on. A second woman says Minnesota Senator Al Franken touched her inappropriately. Civil rights attorneys who fought to end solitary confinement abuses in California prisons charge the state prison system is violating terms of a settlement to severely restrict the practice.